M a t t N e w b y

'the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of a city'

A Video from Hans Karssenberg from STIPO/Inspiring Cities, reflecting on the Rotterdam Exchange into the ‘Arrival City’ (April 2012).

Interactive Affordable Housing, NY

An flash map illustrating incomes for affordable Housing per neighbourhood in New York. This interactive approach provides and easy to understand approach to learning more about the relationship between income, demographic and housing for the future decision making for affordable housing.

Link: http://envisioningdevelopment.net/map

Inside Housing: The Swedish model for housing


This mix of factors - soaring demand, a 4 per cent yield for landlords at best, and tenants only moving to accommodate major life changes - is making ByggVesta’s offer increasingly appealing. The company’s market model is simple:

  • build modest-sized, highly energy-efficient apartments in urban regeneration areas;
  • rent them to singles or couples in the expectation they are unlikely to want to raise children in the same area later but will move to the suburbs to buy a house within 10 years;
  • keep rents low enough to give tenants headroom to save for their mortgage deposit during this period (and potentially move on earlier);
  • outflank the price per square metre cap by building extremely energy-efficient apartments knowing that a municipality will base rents on a sizeable allowance for heating energy-inefficient older stock.
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